This Guy Sucked
A show that proves no matter how long you've been dead, it's never too late to have haters. Join historian Dr. Claire Aubin and a new expert every week to pull back the scholarly curtain on the world’s worst guys and gals. From the widely beloved to the relatively unknown, no historical figure is safe, and every episode reminds listeners that the best part of understanding the past is criticizing it. New episodes every Thursday — free episodes bi-weekly, and access to all episodes (ad-free!) at patreon.com/thisguysucked
Episodes
Claire is joined by Amanda Silberling and Isabel Kim from Wow If True to discuss the collapse of the internet and why we can’t have nice things anymore.
**The full episode is available on the TGS Patreon now and will become available in full on the public Wow If True feed from 10/15.**
Collaborators
Amanda Silberling and Isabel Kim are the hosts and intrepid internet travelers behind Wow If True, the podcast of your w...
Claire and Prof. Dan Hicks bring (more) shame on the name Pitt-Rivers, and make an argument for unburying all of the archival bodies.
Guest
Our guest Dan Hicks is a Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at Oxford, as well as a curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum. His newest book, Every Monument Will Fall is available here. Follow him on Bluesky, Instagram and… LinkedIn?
Sponsors
Claire and Professor Louis Moore go a few rounds with America’s first heavyweight champion.
Guest
Our guest Professor Louis Moore is a Professor of History at Michigan State University and the co-host of the Black Athlete Podcast. His newest book, The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans, and the Making of the Black Quarterback is available here, and I Fight For A Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood i...
Claire and Elise Wang dig into the men (and motivations) behind one of the world’s most damaging and long-standing conspiracy theories.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Elise Wang is a professor of medieval literature at CSU Fullerton, and a current Carnegie Fellow. Her book The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature is available here. Follow her on Bluesky and check out her website.
Partners
Claire and Dr. Shaily Patel unpack the many misdeeds of one of early Christianity’s most important men.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Shaily Patel is an Assistant Professor of early Christianity at Virginia Tech. Her book Magic and Heresy in Ancient Christian Literature is available here, and Smoke and Mirrors: Discourses of Magic in Early Petrine Traditions is available here. Follow her on Bluesky.
Sensitive Themes & T...
Our first ever live show is coming!
Where: Caveat, 21A Clinton St, New York City
When: Thursday, October 9, 2025 @ 7pm
Who: Claire + a couple of special guests!
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Claire and Greg Jenner take center stage to prove Edmund Kean was less leading man, more dramatic cautionary tale.
Guest
Our guest Greg Jenner is a historian, author, podcaster, and ‘weaselly looking guy.’ You can follow him on Instagram and on Bluesky. His website is gregjenner.com and his book Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen is available here.
Partners
Claire and Dr. Surekha Davies badmouth a man who made the world a lot bigger for some people and a lot worse for others.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Surekha Davies is an author, historian of science, speaker, and monster consultant. Her newest book, Humans: A Monstrous History is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @drsurekhadavies and Instagram @surekhadavies, or visit her website.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Racism and r...
Claire and Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson send the man behind Birth Of A Nation (and the re-birth of the KKK) to the cutting room floor.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College and host of This Day from Radiotopia. Her book We Refuse is available here. Follow her on Twitter, Bluesky, and Instagram, or visit her website.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Racism...
Claire and Dr. Chance Bonar journey back into Ancient Roman Africa to talk about a guy who was very afraid of everything, including jewelry and high school teachers.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Chance Bonar is an Advising Fellow at the University of Virginia. His book God, Slavery, and Early Christianity, is available here. Follow him on Twitter and on Bluesky.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Sex, child sexual abuse & marria...
Claire teams up with Chuck from Appodlachia to talk about the union-busting hired guns that made it even harder to survive in the West Virginia coalfields.
Collaborator
This episode is a collaboration with Appodlachia, a show about the culture, history, and politics of Appalachia. Listen to them here and join their Patreon here.
Recommendations
- Black Coal and Red Bandanas by Raymond Tyler, Summer McClinton, and Paul ...
Claire and Dr. Anabel Maler dial in for a discussion on everything that was wrong with that one phone guy.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Anabel Maler is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of British Columbia. Her book, Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music, is available here. Follow her on Bluesky @amaler.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Ableism, eugenics
Credits
Claire and Dr. Patrick Wyman have a chat about mythology, stupidity, and the guy who put the Great in Great Man History.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Patrick Wyman is a historian, author, and podcaster. His book The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World is available here, and you can listen to his podcast Tides of History here. Follow him on Twitter @Patrick_Wyman, Bluesky @patrickwyman, on Instagr...
Claire and Dr. Kevin Schultz discuss a man who grifted his way into (and out of) the White House, and how America’s current political polarization started earlier than you think.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Kevin Schultz is a Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His newest book, Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals) is available here.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Raci...
Claire and Dr. Neil J. Young discuss the frustrating legacy of Terry Dolan – attack dog of the New Right, proponent of ‘traditional values,’ and life-long closeted gay man.
Guest
Our guest Neil J. Young is a historian of the American Right. His book Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right is available here. Follow him on Twitter and Bluesky, or visit his website.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Racism, homophob...
Claire and Dr. Nicole Cochrane make an important contribution to the Horrible Man Theory of history and do not mention anybody’s alleged height or anatomical features while doing it.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Nicole Cochrane is an art historian and Assistant Curator in Historic British Art (1790-1850) at Tate Britain. Her co-edited collection Napoleonic Objects and their Afterlives: Art, Culture, and Heritage 1821-presen...
Claire and Dr. Imani Mosley talk high school band, Scandinavian fantasy freaks, and BDSM (Bizarre/Delusional/Strange Men).
Guest
Our guest Dr. Imani Mosley is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida School of Music. Follow her on Bluesky or visit her website.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Racism, antisemitism, sexual violence
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ce...
Claire and Dr. Hannah Zeavin do a deep-dive on 20th century child psychiatry, and why we all started believing everything is our moms’ fault.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Hannah Zeavin is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, a cofounder of the Psychosocial Foundation, and Founding Editor of Parapraxis Magazine. Her newest book Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century is...
Claire and Dr. Roel Konijnendijk talk trash about ancient Athens’ most treacherous twink.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Roel Konijnendijk is a Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Oxford. Follow him on Bluesky or find him on r/AskHistorians.
Sensitive Themes & Topics
Murder/violence and warfare
Credits
- Host & Executive Producer: Claire E Aubin. Find her on Twitter @ceaubin and Bluesky ceaubin
Claire and Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd grade the man behind Mississippi’s mid-century campus culture wars. He (unsurprisingly) gets an F.
Guest
Our guest Dr. Lauren Lassabe Shepherd is a historian of American colleges and universities, and the host of American Campus. Her book Resistance From The Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars is available here. Follow her on Twitter and Bluesky, or visit her website.
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